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SHUTTLE FOR WEAVING WIRE CLOTH. No. 352,565. Patented Nov. 16, 1886.

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SHUTTLE FOR WEAVING' WIRE-CLOTH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,565, dated November 16, 1886.

Application filed July 17, 1886.

Serial No. 208,285. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN WV. PARKER, of Clinton, in the county of \Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Sh nttles for Weaving Wire-Cloth, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or-science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a top plan View of my improved shuttle, showing the cop in position for use; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same, the cop, latch-coil and shuttle-body being shown in longitudinal section; and Fig. 3, a longitudinal section showing the shuttle with the latch opened and the cop removed, the latch-coil being shown in section.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates'more especially to that class of shuttles which are employed in weaving wirecloth; and it'consists in a novel 'construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, the object being to produce a simpler and more effective device of this character than is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation.

In the drawings, A represents the body of the shuttle, B the cop, and C the latch. The body is preferably composed of wood, but may be composed of iron, brass, or any other suitable material, and is provided 011 its upper side with a centrally-disposed elongatedmortise or cavity, E, which extends longitudinally thereof nearly its entire length.

Pivoted at J, near the heel of the shuttle in the mortise E, there is a latch or binder, C, and disposed in the opposite end of said mortise there is a catch, H. The latch is composed of a single piece of elastic wire, all of its parts being integral, and in constructing it the wire is coiled a short distance from its center to form the hinge m, and its shorter end folded backwardly and twisted around or intertwined with the body, as shown at 2, thus forming the two'meinbers m m,which are preferabl y separated about three fourths of an inch in a full-size shuttle, and are bent or curved upwardly, as shown at o, to conform with the shape or contour of the cop B. The bottom of the mortise E is cut out to form a bed for the reception of the cop, as shown at D, the bottom of said bed ,being curved to correspond approximately with the curvature or contour of the cop.

A holeor eye, It, is formed in the side of the body of the shuttle at its center, through which the end of the filling-wire w passes to the web in the nsualmanner, the cop being so wound or formed that the wire unwinds or is delivered from its center, as best seen in Fig. 2.

The end of the latch is bent to form the'loop f, to enable the latch to be opened more readily;

but this feature may be omitted, if desired.

I do not confine myself to curving the membars at upwardly, as shown at o, as the elasticity of the latch enables it to conform somewhat to the shape of the cop when it is closed and secured by the catch.

In the use of my improvement the end w of the wire is threaded through the eyeh, and the cop B placed in the bed D, after which the latch C is closed, its free end being forced under the hook of the catch H, thereby securing the cop in the shuttle in a manner which will be readily obvious without a more explicit description.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is- 1. The body A, having the mortise E in its upper face, and the transverse rod J in said mortise, in combination with the latch C, comprising a single piece of wire having two members connected at their inner ends by a coil through which said rod J passes, and also connected about midway of the length of the shuttle-body, and means for locking said latch C in position, substantially as described.

2. The body A, having the mortise E in its tie-body by being twisted around each other, upper face, and the transverse rod J in said and means for locking said latch O in position, mortise, in combination with the latch 0, comsubstantially as described.

prising a single piece of wire having two mem- JOHN W. PARKER. 5 bers eonnectedt-at' their inner ends by a coil Witnesses:

through which said rod J passes, and also con- 0. M. ALLEY,

nected about midway of the length of the shut- LoUIs BECK. 

